Reviews

Patterns in Genesis and Beyond By Rabbi David Sykes Patterns Publications 2014 589 pages Reviewed by Hayyim Angel The field of literary analysis of Tanach has been substantially refined over the past… Read more

The Rabbi & The Nuns: The Inside Story of a Rabbi’s Therapeutic Work with the Sisters of St. Francis By Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski Mekor Press Brooklyn, 2013 190 pages Reviewed by Steve Lipman A… Read more

Our New Special Baby Written by Chaya Rosen Illustrated by Rivkie Braverman Feldheim Publishers Nanuet, New York, 2013 43 pages Reviewed by Dovid M. Cohen Our New Special Baby, written by Chaya Rosen… Read more

A story about Murray Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman, both Nobel Laureates in physics, captures some of the challenge presented by certain kinds of greatness. A student once said to Gell-Mann about some… Read more

L’Chaim: 18 Chapters to Live By By Shmuel Shields, PhD Brand Name Publishing Jerusalem, 2012 228 pages Reviewed by Shira Isenberg Few nutrition and health books are written for a frum audience,… Read more

Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation By Yossi Klein Halevi Harper Collins Publishers New York, 2013 608 pages Reviewed by Yitzchak Etshalom… Read more

For reasons I cannot begin to fathom, I had the incomparable zechut of knowing Rebbetzin Batsheva Kanievsky personally. I first met her in 2005, the year I spent learning in seminary in Israel. Read more